Events
- 1930 - Japan's first women's apartment is built in Ōtsuka, Tōkyō.
- 1965 - The Japan Soccer League is established.
- 1979 - The practice of nengō, or eras, as a system for counting years is codified for the first time.
- 1995 - Shōkō Asahara and 6 others are put on trial for murder in connection with the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
Births
- 1829 - Honinbo Shusaku (d. 1862), Go player
- 1925 - Hideji Ōtaki (d. 2012), actor
- 1938 - Ryuchi Matsuda (d. 2013), martial artist and author
- 1951 - Noritake Takahara, race car driver
- 1952 - Yukihiro Takahashi, drummer, producer, and actor
- 1953 - June Yamagishi, guitarist
- 1965 - Megumi Ogata, voice actress and singer
- 1986 - Junichi Tazawa, Japanese-American baseball player
- 1992 - Megumi Murakami, singer and actress
Film and television
- 2000 - Aikotoba wa Yūki begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Kōji Yakusho
- 2015 - Pieta in the Toilet, a youth drama film starring Yojiro Noda and Hana Sugisaki